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Thousands of people took to the streets in European and Asian cities on Saturday, demonstrating in support of US protests against police brutality. The global protests reflect rising anger over police treatment of ethnic minorities. ...

Tens of thousands of people across Hong Kong lit candles and chanted democracy slogans on Thursday to commemorate China's deadly Tiananmen crackdown, defying a ban against gathering as tensions seethed over a planned new security law. ...

India’s coronavirus infections crossed 200,000, official figures showed on Wednesday, and a peak could still be weeks away in the world’s second-most populous country, where the economy has begun re-opening after a lockdown imposed in March ...

Leh district observed a complete bandh on Monday in protest over the statement made by former Ambassador P Stobdan against the Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on a national TV channel during a debate on the Indo-China border issue. ...

Stobdan said that the Dalai Lama should declare that these lands belong to India. "We let him establish a Tibetan government in Dharamshala. He should issue a clarification that the land claimed by China belongs to India and not Tibet."
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Tulku Orgyen Tobgyal apologised to Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama after Tobgyal had criticised him for giving online empowerments, saying that his criticism was only aimed towards protecting the practice of tantra. ...

India extended its coronavirus lockdown until 30 June in high-risk zones but permitted restaurants, malls and religious buildings to reopen elsewhere from June 8 despite a record high number of cases detected nationwide on Saturday. ...

The United States will end its relationship with the World Health Organization over the body’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, US President Donald Trump said on Friday, accusing the UN agency of becoming a puppet of China. ...